Thank you for your interest in learning more about the Robyn’s Nest volunteer opportunity. We appreciate your interest to volunteer to help us toward our goal to strengthen families and to promote overall health and well-being of children. Our agency is the state’s largest, not-for-profit provider of child welfare services. Our primary mission at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin Community Services is to work with families to ensure the safety and well-being of children.
Our organization hosts a basic needs repository called the Robyn’s Nest that strictly operates through the ongoing assistance of volunteers who help organize and sort incoming donations and help us ran annual drives to ensure needy families receive back to school supplies and Christmas gifts. The Robyn’s Nest houses new and gently used clothing, hygiene products, infant items, toys, books and other household goods. Robyn’s Nest provides these items free to the families within our foster care system as well as those identified to have unmet needs through Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin.
Host a “Drive” for the the Robyn’s Nest our onsite basic needs repository. Please contact Lona Long Velasco at 414-231-4820 to learn what items the Robyn's Nest is most in need as it varies from time to time for a variety of reasons.
For the Season of Caring our greatest needs are highlighted in blue.
- Provide donations to the Robyn’s Nest (clothing, shoes, toiletries, diapers, ect.)
- “Book Drive” (infants, toddlers, elementary and teens)
- Children's NEW socks and underwear
- “Clothing Drive” (for kids of all ages)
- “Diaper Drive” (include formula, pull-ups, & blankets)
- Teen gifts and gift cards for Christmas
- “Toiletries Drive” (shampoo, conditioner, body wash, deodorant, toothpaste and toothbrushes)
- “Toy Drive” (include books and games too!)
- “Suitcase Drive” (include duffel bags and backpacks)
- “Stuff the Bus” (school supplies and backpacks)
